At 08:54 PM 8/27/2012, Winterlight wrote:
At 02:34 PM 8/26/2012, you wrote:
The darlings at the moment are the Samsung 830 and Crucial m4 (and
possibly the new Plextor M5 Pro), but unless you figure out what it
is that's writing so much data to your SSD, you're just going to
kill it too.
I talked to Intel, and they were happy to offer a replacement under
warranty. I don't want to pay 25 dollars for a turnaround so I think I
am going to buy a Crucial M4 128GB which is currently at a pretty good
price point and I will use the coming Intel replacement for my laptop.
I have a 600 GB Intel 320 series SSD as my C: drive (WinXP SP3 32 bit
system files, page file, and temp files). The drive is partitioned with
music and video data on about 3/4 of the drive. Programs and data are
on 4 other identical 600 GB Intel SSD drives.
My system is a 6 core Intel i7 Extreme 990X at 3.47 GHz with 6 GB RAM
on an Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard. (Yes, only 4 GB of the RAM is
usable.) [Cooled by twin high speed 5" fans that sound like leaf
blowers, the temperatures of the 6 cores stay below 30C degrees most of
the time. I did manage to hit 90C after running Prime95 for 18 hours
with all cores at 100%.] Nobody talks about fans and temperatures on
the list anymore!
Anyway...
Using the Intel SSD Toolkit ver. 3.03, I see 2.45 TB written (total) on
the C: drive and estimated life remaining is listed as 100%. (The other
four 600 GB drives show between 500 and 700 GB total writes per drive
with 100% life remaining.)
I've had the C: 600 GB SSD drive for about 16 months. The other four
600 GB drives are between 2 months and 12 months old.
Regards,
Bill
